Antifa thug slaps BNP thug.

Rest of humanity looks on with disgust at both sides of same coin.

Thanks

looks like he's soiled himself.

Antifa and the BNP are now so dependent on the other they have almost become one. There is no BNP threat in this country, their views, their opinions, their ambitions have close to zero support among the electorate apart from a couple of blips now and then. They have as much chance of achieving power as the SWP.

The Antifa movement so desperately needs a Far Right bogey man to "oppose" they have inflated the influence of the BNP to a ridiculous level that is totally unrepresentative of reality.

If one went the other would be gone in a week.

couldn't agree more.

Same old story. People wanna be part of a gang and march around the place showing how hard they are to the "other tribe". Doesn't really matter which one you are in. If it wasn't this, they'd be into man city versus man united.

young males showing off how hard their cocks are. Yet done in a safe manner because the police are there who fortunately keep them apart, so it all ends up being big talk and the occasional fist

If there were 30 deaths, then hardly anyone would turn up because they would all be chicken shit and go and see football instead because they can shout their bullshit in a safe, controlled environment that is policed for their safety.

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Q - "Antifa and the BNP are now so dependent on the other they have almost become one. There is no BNP threat in this country, their views, their opinions, their ambitions have close to zero support among the electorate apart from a couple of blips now and then..." ?

A - If by "a couple of blips" you mean the near MILLION votes that got Nick Griffin and Andrew Brons elected to the European parliament, and the over 70,000 votes that got Richard Barnbrook elected to the Greater London Authority, maybe I'd agree. Fact is the BNP are no longer an electoral threat because Anti-Fascists put years of hard work into making sure the BNP stopped being an electoral threat - and we did that before the BNP were able to exploit the current and up-coming waves of cuts, unemployment, austerity measures and privatisations etc, and that in itself was a critical victory for the broad left.

In comparison an equivalent victory was not achieved in Greece, where large sections of the left remained apathetic about the Fascist threat, and, because the Greek left failed to put the far-right out of its misery before the financial crisis really hit, now Greek Nazis have real power in parliament, a strong presence on the streets, and huge support within the Greek army and police (sure Greek Nazis are still very much a minority, but they're not going to let go of the political gains they've made without a very serious fight)

Back to the UK, the specific group that adopted the name "Antifa" had (for all their good and bad points) very little to do with wrecking the BNP's electoral ambitions, and don't (to the best of my knowledge) exist as a formally constituted organisation any more, however the issue that the militant wing of Anti-Fascism is trying to respond to now is the return to right-wing street-violence that inevitably follows any crushing of the far-right's electoral ambitions. That situation has always been inevitable since well before the BNP fell apart as a political party, and if you're not aware of that then you're politically naive

Q - "If one went the other would be gone in a week"

I think you might take a more pragmatic attitude if it was your partner who'd been beaten to a pulp by these runts

Q - "If one went the other would be gone in a week"

Sure - the operative word here being however your use of the word "if". However you might have noticed the far-right AREN'T gone. The far-right started in the UK in the late 1920s, have NEVER gone away, and are out there now trying to build-up their support base to the point where they can confidently initiate real political violence, and that's why they need to be continually opposed (the debate about how best to oppose them is however another question)

Jim Larkin and The Anti-Treaty IRA

 https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2012/07/497944.html?c=on

I think you might take a more pragmatic attitude if it was your partner who'd been beaten to a pulp by these runts


strawman argument - my partner hasn't been beaten to a pulp.
If they had - I would. But they havn't.

In a similar instance, if the Arch bishop of cantebury had beaten my partner to a pulp, I would also take a more pragmatic approach about him. But he hasn't..... so its irrelevant.

If aliens invaded Earth, I'd take a more pragmatic approach to them. But they havn't.

with another slap.